Details
ANSEL ADAMS (1902–1984)
Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada, 1944
gelatin silver print, mounted on board, printed 1973-1977
signed in pencil (mount, recto); titled in ink in photographer's Carmel credit stamp [BMFA 11] (mount, verso)
image/sheet: 1714 x 23 in. (43.8 x 58.4 cm.)
mount: 1834 x 2412 in. (47.6 x 62.2 cm.)
Provenance
Sotheby's New York, April 26-27, 1989, lot 337;
Sotheby’s Paris, September 23, 2009, Lot 155;
acquired from the above by the present owner.
Literature
Ansel Adams and Nancy Newhall, This Is The American Earth, Little, Brown & Co., New York, 1960, frontispiece.
Ansel Adams, Letters and Images 1916-1984, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1988, p. 275.
Ansel Adams, Examples: The Making of 40 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., 1989, p. 163.
Ansel Adams, Yosemite and the Range of Light, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, 1992, pl. 99.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams: Classic Images, Little, Brown & Co., Tokyo, 1999, pl. 38.
John Szarkowski, Ansel Adams at 100, Little, Brown & Company/San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001, pl. 85.
Andrea Stillman (ed.), Ansel Adams: 400 Photographs, Little, Brown & Co., London, 2007, p. 245.
Andrea Stillman, Looking at Ansel Adams: The Photographs and the Man, Little, Brown & Co., London, 2012, p. 128.
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